On 8/30/07, David Lichteblau david@lichteblau.com wrote:

Okay, the whole ASDF-on-Windows situation is not ideal, so your configuration file to get people started is probably a good idea.

I was hoping that the shortcut patch for ASDF makes things a little easier (because ordinary windows shortcuts created manually can be used), but that does not help much as long as it's not committed.

clbuild is something I find valuable to avoid having to install everything manually, but I don't test it regularly on Windows, so it might be more trouble than it's worth for others.

It's nice to have graphic-forms supported in clbuild, so I thank you for making that happen.

I think the trouble is the uneven functionality provided by different Unix-compatibility layers for Windows, not clbuild itself. For instance, MSYS has a broken version of ln which behaves like cp instead. If I were running Cygwin I suspect clbuild would work fine on my machine.

One comment to the wider audience. The shortcut patch mentioned above, which is available at:

http://www.lichteblau.com/blubba/shortcut/

is very easy to apply, if you're inclined to build SBCL/Win32 from source.